plant bugs

⋅ BY AMANDA HUBER ⋅ SOUTHEAST EDITOR After being behind much of the season in growing degree days, conditions in late July and August allowed the cotton crop to catch up in many areas of Georgia.  “Between severe weather, plant bug problems...

Davis Family Farms Is Dedicated To Remaining Sustainable And Preserving Its Legacy • By Carroll Smith, Editor • When Bart Davis was 17 years old, he lost his mother. When he was 18, his father passed away, and Davis had to bring...

• By Ryan McGeeney • As they say, there’s no accounting for taste. Plant bugs, a perennial pest of Arkansas cotton, spend much of June and early July feasting on the silk of corn while it’s still green, the plants still...

• SPONSORED CONTENT • Ashley Peters Peters Crop Consulting Crowville, Louisiana I grew up in Franklin Parish where my father farmed for about 40 years. Cotton was our predominant crop, so I had a lot of experience plowing, planting, spraying, hoeing and...

Life in 2020 was dominated by COVID-19, however, the work continued for cotton producers. While the Alabama cotton industry had an unusual weather season, no one cotton pest dominated the growing season. Alabama Cooperative Extension System entomologists Scott Graham and...

Rockin’ The Hills Of West Tennessee • By Carroll Smith, Editor • In the late 1800s, Ernest Reeves traveled from Canada and settled in Fayette County, Tennessee, where the Loosahatchie River runs through the rolling hills and bottomland of this fertile agricultural...